Motivational Quotes

Love

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Love

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

10.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

11.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

12.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

13.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

14.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

16.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

17.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

18.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

19.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

20.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

21.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

23.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

24.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

25.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

26.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

27.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

28.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

29.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

30.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

31.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

32.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

33.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

34.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

35.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

36.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

37.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

38.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

40.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

41.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

42.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

43.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

44.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

46.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

47.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

48.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

49.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

50.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.